GoGrid Names Mark Worsey Chief Information Officer

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 4:37pm

Infrastructure and Internet Veteran Joins Cloud Hosting leader

San Francisco, CA, July 21, 2010 - GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, today announced that it has appointed Mark Worsey as Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology. Worsey brings to the GoGrid team expansive industry expertise ranging from technology platform development to world-wide network operations. Worsey will be responsible for all technological and architectural advancements as well as managing the operating strategies for GoGrid's products and services.

"We're proud to have Mark's leadership driving GoGrid's innovative engineering, technology and operations departments," said GoGrid CEO & Co-Founder, John Keagy. "We will look to Mark's technological vision and expertise to enable GoGrid to continue to surpass the expectations of our thousands of customers every day."

Throughout his career, Worsey has successfully scaled and led numerous technology organizations. Prior to joining GoGrid, he was responsible for worldwide technology operations, customer service and product development as CIO and VP of Technology at a Safeway subsidiary Blackhawk Network, a leading prepaid and gift card payments processing company. Worsey spent 14 years at Anderson Consulting as a leader in its Advanced Technology Group. He has also held senior technology leadership positions at industry-changing firms including Xign Corporation and Netscape Communications. As the VP of Engineering and Operations at Netscape, Worsey successfully managed and delivered a series of pioneering online services to include MyNetscape, Netcenter and the Netscape General Store through the acquisitions of Netscape by AOL and then Time Warner.

"As a CIO myself, I deeply appreciate the need for scalable infrastructure – available on demand – delivered in a way that allows me to reduce spend," said Worsey. "GoGrid nails this ROI value proposition and feature requirements for its customers better than any other provider in the market. I'm ecstatic to be working with a fantastic team on delivering the most innovative cloud infrastructure solutions available."

Worsey holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University.